CVE-2016-1231 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1231?

CVE-2016-1231 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified path.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1231?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Prosody Prosody.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1231?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2016-1231 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1231 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1231, GHSA-8q2g-4r27-6vpc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1231.